Dulles Demands Five Year Trade Extension Stance
Secretary of State Dulles insists on a five year extension for reciprocal trade agreements despite Republican moves to trim the term to three years. He argues a three year period would force renewed tariff debates during possible negotiations with the European Common Market. Senate leaders and Finance Committee members weigh three versus five year options amid party splits.
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Dulles
House
H. Alexander Smith
Congress
United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
Senate
Russell Long
D-La
Finance Committee
Wheat Protein Low Despite Strong Test Weight In 1958
In Kansas the 1958 grain crop shows high test weight averaging 61.9 pounds per bushel but protein averages 11.8 percent with wide regional variation. Southern and central counties yield protein as low as 10.8 percent and as high as 13.1 percent, while test weights range 60.1 to 62.7 pounds.
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Topeka
Kangas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Giant squid studied near Abaco Island discovery
In Miami the University of Mi Pi Marine Laboratory researchers study a 43 foot 250 pound giant squid claimed as the largest taken in the area. The specimen was found floating near Abaco Island in the Bahamas by a U S Fish and Wildlife Service patrol boat.
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Miami
Fla
University of Mi- Pi Marine Laboratory
Abaco Island
Bahamas
W U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Family and travel notices from Benedict area
Local briefs list extended travel to California Long Beach and Oklahoma, Navy discharge pending for David Kern, relatives visiting from Wichita Los Angeles and Benedict. Nearby soldiers and families share church revival dates, hospital surgeries and visits to Coffeyville Tahlequah and Chanute Air. multiple Benedict residents host visitors from Oregon Texas and Newton.
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Raymond Kein
Bill Brinkmeyer
Wichita
California
David Kern
Long Beach
Chanute Residents to Attend Jehovah's Witnesses Meet in New York
Arlene Hurley reports four Chanute residents will travel to New York for the international Jehovah's Witnesses convention at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds from July 27 to August 3. Janet Starr Helen Kennedy and Irma Mikulin will join. Last convention drew 165000 attendees. The Jewish Braille Institute of America held an international literary competition with 600 entries from 39 nations in 29 languages.
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Chanute
Jehovah's Witnesses
New York
Arlene Hurley
Yankee Stadium
Polo Grounds
Janet Starr
Helen Kennedy
Irma Mikulin
Jewish Braille Institute of America
Manhattan
David Bradley
Ferguson
John Deere
John Deere Barrow
Ferguson Tractor
Unemployment to Rise Slightly in June Seasonal Trend
Government officials caution that June unemployment will jump by roughly 500,000 to 600,000 as students seek summer work, a normal seasonal rise. They note May employment fell in factories, and a sustained recession signal requires a real factory hiring rebound.
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Washington
Bravest Santa Barbara Driver Raises $13,000 for Family
Russel C. Moore, 31, died when brakes failed and he steered a runaway truck through eight crossings before crashing into a creek. Moore left a wife, four children with a fifth on the way, and relief funds gathered about $13,000 after the News-Press report.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Russel C. Moore
Moore
Ham Radio Bridges Iron Curtain Friendship Across Borders
Stamford based Frank Enge of American Machine & Foundry and Moscow engineer Leo Shiskin typify the new international ties as ham radio operators exchange journals records and personal notes since their contact began on August 11 1956. Enge notes about 12 000 of about 160 000 US hams have contacted Soviet amateurs. Enge believes greater mutual understanding could dissolve the Iron Curtain.
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Stamford
Conn
United States
Soviet Union
Frank Enge
Leo Shiskin
Enge
American Machine & Foundry Co
Shiskin
Moscow
Leo
Frank
AWOL Pilot Sentenced To Hard Labor In Court Martial
Airman Donald Keeton 19 was convicted at Keesler Air Force Base on an AWOL charge after flying a rented plane to Dallas to visit his girlfriend. He received 30 days hard labor, a reduction to airman basic, and forfeited $65 in pay.
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Biloxi
Miss
Donald Keeton
Dallas
Tex
Keesler Air Force Base
Keeton
Keeton Flew to Texas. Arrested After Flight
Keeton rented a plane near Gulfport on June 12 and eluded searchers before landing in a field near Tyler, Texas. He was arrested two days later at his mother's Dallas home and said the flight was to see 17 year old Doris Lynn Bowling. He left a note indicating death by his own action.
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Fla
Charles Sapp
Rufus Argo
William Scott
Chanute Tribune
Keeton
Gulfport
Mili
Tyler
Tex
Dallas
Doris Lynn
Barracks Hoax Emerges at Keesler AFB
A hoax report circulates from the barracks at Keesler Air Force Base. Historical note recalls how Panamanian canal construction in the 1890s faced deadly disease outbreaks caused by mosquitos, with yellow fever and malaria responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.
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Panama Canal
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